Climate Refugees: How Climate Change Is Displacing MillionsThe New York Times Editorial Staff The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, 2018 M07 15 - 224 pages In a world where temperatures fluctuate and extreme weather has become commonplace, several populations have already found themselves unable to survive in their homeland. Droughts, flooding, and crop failures have caused famine, while extreme weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes have destroyed homes and, at times, whole villages. The articles in this collection examine the phenomenon of climate refugees, including the reasons they must move, the impact it has on humans and the economy, and examining the politics and other factors that affect their arrival in new countries. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
CHAPTER 1 | 10 |
Swallowed by the Sea | 13 |
Living in Chinas Expanding Deserts | 16 |
Mexico City Parched and Sinking Faces a Water Crisis | 20 |
Polar Bears Path to Decline Runs Through Alaskan Village | 32 |
A Remote Pacific Nation Threatened by Rising Seas | 40 |
Sinking Islands Floating Nation | 46 |
How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration | 150 |
Climate Change Is Driving People From Home So Why Dont They Count as Refugees? | 152 |
Running Dry in Cape Town | 155 |
A Spys Guide to Climate Change | 159 |
CHAPTER 4 | 162 |
Where Can You Escape the Harshest Effects of Climate Change? | 168 |
Our Behavior | 173 |
Of 21 Winter Olympic Cities Many May Soon Be Too Warm to Host the Games | 179 |
Left to Louisianas Tides a Village Fights for Time | 49 |
CHAPTER 2 | 78 |
As Climate Changes Southern States Will Suffer More Than Others | 87 |
Climate Change in My Backyard | 91 |
Drought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine but 4 | 95 |
A Lifetime in Perus Glaciers Slowly Melting Away | 103 |
Floods Leave Paris Contemplating a Wetter Future | 108 |
How Iran Fits an Alarming Pattern | 111 |
CHAPTER 3 | 115 |
Resettling Chinas Ecological Migrants | 123 |
Heat Hunger and War Force Africans Onto a Road of Fire | 134 |
As Donald Trump Denies Climate Change These Kids Die of It | 143 |
Fortified but Still in Peril New Orleans Braces for Its Future | 182 |
Providing for 7 Billion Or Not | 190 |
No Children Because of Climate Change? Some People Are Considering It | 192 |
What Land Will Be Underwater in 20 Years? Figuring It Out Could Be Lucrative | 197 |
Forests Protect the Climate A Future With More Storms Would Mean Trouble | 202 |
Glossary | 211 |
Media Literacy Terms | 213 |
Media Literacy Questions | 215 |
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Back Cover | 225 |
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